The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

CHAPTER
VII
Don
Quixote
de
la
Mancha
 35
OF
THE
SECOND
SALLY
OF
OUR
GOOD
KNIGHT,
DON
QUIXOTE
DE
LA
MANCHA
.
.
.
In
short,
then,
he
remained
at
home
fifteen
days
very
quietly
without
showing
any
signs
of
a
desire
to
take
up
with
his
former
delusions,
and
during
this
time
he
held
lively
discussions
with
his
two
gossips,
the
curate
and
the
barber,
on
the
point
he
maintained,
that
knights‐errant
were
what
the
world
stood
most
in
need
of,
and
that
in
him
was
to
be
accomplished
the
revival
of
knight‐errantry.
The
curate
sometimes
contradicted
him,
sometimes
agreed
with
him,
for
if
he
had
not
observed
this
precaution
he
would
have
been
unable
to
bring
him
to
reason.
Meanwhile
Don
Quixote
worked
upon
a
farm
laborer,
a
neighbor
of
his,
an
honest
man
(if
indeed
that
title
can
be
given
to
him
who
is
poor),
but
with
very
little
wit
in
his
head.
In
a
word,
he
so
talked
him
over,
and
with
such
persuasions
and
promises,
that
the
poor
clown
made
up
his
mind
to
sally
forth
with
him
and
serve
him
as
squire.
Don
Quixote,
among
other
things,
told
him
he
ought
to
be
ready
to
go
with
him
gladly,
because
any
moment
an
adventure
might
occur
that
might
win
an
island
in
the
twinkling
of
an
eye
and
leave
him
governor
of
it.
On
these
and
the
like
promises
Sancho
Panza
(for
so
the
laborer
was
called)
left
wife
and
children,
and
engaged
himself
as
squire
to
his
neighbor.
Don
Quixote
next
set
about
getting
some
money;
and
selling
one
thing
and
pawning
another,
and
making
a
bad
bargain
in
every
case,
he
got
together
a
fair
sum.
He
provided
himself
with
a
buckler,
which
he
begged
as
a
loan
from
a
friend,
and,
restoring
his
battered
helmet
as
best
he
could,
he
warned
his
squire
Sancho
of
the
day
and
hour
he
meant
to
set
out,
that
he
might
provide
himself
with
what
he
thought
most
needful.
Above
all,
he
charged
him
to
take
alforjas 22 
with
him.
The
other
said
he
would,
and
that
he
meant
to
take
also
a
very
good
ass
he
had,
as
he
22 
Saddle
bags